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A painting of a man convicted in the murder in 1996 of Veronica Guerin, a prominent journalist known for her aggressive reporting on Dublin criminals, has caused an outcry after being displayed at a Dublin gallery. The portrait of the man, Brian...

Nearly six years after the Irish newspaper reporter Veronica Guerin was shot dead by a drug-smuggling gang, her death still strikes a powerful chord with the public here. If Ireland today has matured into its newly affluent and sophisticated identity...

A court overturned the conviction of a man in the 1996 murder of a journalist who reported on Dublin's crime gangs and drug dealers, finding that a police informant's testimony against him was unreliable. In 1998, a no-jury antiterrorist court...

March 23, 2002, Saturday

A major Dublin drug dealer was sentenced to life in prison today after being convicted for the 1996 murder of Veronica Guerin, a prominent Dublin journalist who reported aggressively on organized crime. The dealer, Brian Meehan, 34, who had...

A Dublin drug dealer was convicted today by a three-judge panel in the 1996 murder of Veronica Guerin, a prominent journalist known for her aggressive reporting on Dublin criminals. The man, Paul Ward, 34, denied helping to kill Ms. Guerin but...

A 34-year-old Dublin drug dealer accused of helping to murder a prominent Irish journalist said at his trial today that he had nothing to do with the killing. The journalist, Veronica Guerin, was shot five times in the chest in June 1996 by two...

Amsterdam district court judges today approved the extradition of an Irishman linked to the killing of a prominent Irish crime reporter. The suspect, Brian Meehan, who was arrested in Amsterdam, was expected to appeal. In addition, the extradition...

December 10, 1997, Wednesday

Dutch police today released one of two suspects arrested Friday in the slaying of an Irish crime reporter. Dutch authorities said the man still held in connection with the killing of the reporter, Veronica Guerin, would be extradited to Ireland.

October 12, 1997, Sunday

A man from Dublin was charged today with the murder of Ireland's leading investigative reporter, Veronica Guerin, who was known for her efforts to expose Dublin's criminal underworld. The man charged, Paul Ward, 32, has been in custody since Oct....

Shots from a .45-caliber handgun were fired at her through the window of her cottage as she put her 5-year-old son to bed. The country's most notorious criminal beat her up and threatened to sodomize her child and kill her entire family. An intruder...